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And now it’s a fucking shit show. What gives?

And now it’s a fucking shit show. What gives?

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[–] • 7 pts

Texas was forced to have 50% of its power turned into "green energy"

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Yup, Pedo Joe + his kike controllers instituted "energy reforms" that crippled the grid in TX.

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Combine that with diversity hiring practices and you get ever-increasing failures in everything. Look at Johannesburg. It's coming to America sooner than you think.

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No. Deregulation is the problem. When I was there I had ~ $150-200 power bills jump to $300-400 over a few months. Pedo Joe is guilty of a lot of shit but ERCOT and the fucked Texas power grid is not one of them.

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You're right, some of it is ERCOT, but some of it is also Pedo Joe and his kike owners mandating that the grid waste 50% of their energy output to meet "green" goals.

I didn't downvote you btw.

[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

We had severe storms recently in my Australian state and some parts are still without power. We'll have more power issues in the future because our coal fired plant was closed due to muh climate change with nothing viable to replace it. Plus we'll have water storage issues again at some point. Yay.

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better bring in more immigrants and refugees. that will help.

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Gives the power companies an excuse to raise rates.

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Upper 90s for Houston is nothing…. Greater than normal heat no. Greater than normal demand because of power grid mismanagement and dumb ass people everywhere yes.

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What, 3-5 years back Texas had record number of sequential triple digits and record highs. No power problems.

If Texas is having power issues in the 90s, it's 100% engineered to occur.

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Texas has always had energy problems. I remember rolling brownouts in the early 90s when there were some fairly nasty winters. The real problem is the second Texas deregulated it became a free-for-all and ERCOT gives no fucks about people dying of heat strokes in their homes. Come to think of it AEP and other assorted power companies in the north don't care about people freezing in their homes either.

It's all about money but muh Texas and freedumb.

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This and I attribute it to people becoming dependent on AC and electric/gas heat instead of hydration/old school fans and wood stoves in the winter.

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The winter thing, yeah, 100 year and 500 year variances happen, and fallible humans fail to predict it perfectly.

Also, the population of TX has exploded, both from people flooding the southern border and from idiots bailing out of coastal states that are sinking rapidly.

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Ercot wants us to turn off our A/C's to save energy, or alternately, to set our thermostats up to 78°. This is the hottest June ever and now we need to conserve? Forget that.

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Start digging a basement. Cooler down in the ground. Not too deep though or it starts to get warmer.

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Not with a 2 foot water table and southeast Texas is what? 30-50 feet above sea level?

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Oh dang. Well, today I learned.

New idea: form a hill/mound around a subterranean-built room of the house. Preferably on he lower level.

Jokes aside, that sucks. Hope you guys have means of keeping cool. Plenty of water, maybe plant a few shade trees, cover windows during the day, get some fans getting some food circulation, and whatever comes to mind.

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Most of our powergrid is heavily assisted by solar and we still have energy problems in San Diego. Also the highest price per KwH in the country ($.50-.60 between 4-9PM). Decentralized localized (neighbor-to-neighbor power) grids are the way to go. Probably would be much safer too.

My current 8kw system produces significantly more energy than I use. I'm generating around 500 excess Kwhr each month. If a peer-to-peer energy distrbution model was used you could sell of your energy to neighbors at far better rates than SDGE pays out ($0.02 kwhr). It would be like an automated energy exchange where supply and demand dictate the prices. I think Tesla is working on something like that.

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8kw might run an AC in texas where its +100 degrees.

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Its been around 100 deg where I live in SD this past week. I had a 4ton SEER 16 Goodman central AC unit installed about 2 weeks ago. The home is 2200 sq feet with 11 ft ceilings. At 72 degrees the overall energy production/consumption is almost perfectly balanced in terms of kwhr. Due to time of use pricing the cost doesn't balance out. However, the accumulated energy credits more than offset the costs on the hot days. This home does have excellent insulation and that can make a big difference as well.

A battery system would work with a reasonably efficient AC assuming you have clear skies on the hot days. If not, just run a supplementary gas generator (if you live in CA and are working from home you've probably already invested in one this past year). Last year we had around 8 days of outages. One outage lasted 3 days. When you're working from home spending a bit extra on energy infrastructure doesn't seems perfectly reasonable.